ALUMNI NEWS WE WELCOME NEWS AND PHOTOS related to your career, awards, reunions or travel with your Monmouth College friends, and any other information of interest to your classmates or alumni. We also welcome announcements and photos of alumni weddings and births, as well as alumni obituaries. Please see page 38 for submission guidelines.
1941
Clairus ’38 and Betty Johnson Dew of Fort Wayne, Ind., celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary on June 14. Although they were both from the Monmouth area, they didn’t meet until they were students at Monmouth. They married in 1943 when Clairus, who served in the South Pacific, was on military leave. Clairus retired as head of the underwriting department at Midwestern United Life Insurance Company and Betty is a retired teacher from Fort Wayne Community Schools.
1944 MacNEIL
Forrest Strickler of Bella Vista, Ark., reports that in 2017 he returned to Europe to retrace his steps from the Battle of the Bulge to Berlin in 1944. He was a platoon sergeant at the time, leading 65 soldiers. He later became a first sergeant and had the pleasure of serving as President Truman’s honor guard for two weeks at the Potsdam Conference. Truman rewarded him by bringing him home on the Queen Mary.
1952
Barb Atkinson Bailey of Penney Farms, Fla., reports that she and her son are both fighting cancer but that she is recovering and getting back to her many activities. Peg Deschwanden Foster of Hawaii is an inveterate traveler who recently made another tour of Europe. Jack Kelly of Jekyll Island, Ga., stays active playing tennis and writing books.
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JUNE 6-9, 2019
Neal Bullington of Traverse City, Mich., has been retired from the National Park Service since 2002. He stays in touch with Gaylan King and Rich Cargill via Facebook.
Jim Nelson and his wife, Bev, vacationed in Norway last summer, where they met their great-grandchildren. Carol Kemmerer Wetzel and her sister also vacationed in Scandanavia during the summer.
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John Turnquist and his wife, Jeanette, of Bloomington, Ill., have established a family foundation that helps low-income families improve their quality of life through counseling and financial assistance. They have processed more than 100 application in the past two years. They have also traveled more than 43,000 miles in a century-old automobile.
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Michael Fredrick ’67 (left) and Rick Kaskel ’67 made a memorable pilgrimage to Vietnam in October. It was Fredrick’s first time back in the country since 1969 when he served as a first lieutenant in the Army. He enjoyed seeing the many changes that had occurred over the past 48 years, as well as the friendliness and energy of the Vietnamese people.
1964
55th
REUNION
JUNE 6-9, 2019
50th
REUNION
JUNE 6-9, 2019
Kay Buss MacNeil of Frankfort, Ill., received the Member Award of Honor from National Gardens Club in May. For the past three years, MacNeil has been promoting her effort “Milkweed for Monarchs,” an effort in the greater Chicago area and across the country to save monarch butterflies.
1969 1970
Steve Fowler of Dublin, Ohio, obtained his pilot’s instrument rating earlier this year and is working on his commercial pilot and instructor ratings. As a student, he remembers soloing at the Monmouth airport.
Victoria Wheeler Romero of Seattle, Wash., published a new book earlier this year. An education consultant, Romero co-authored Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences.
1972
William Daniel of Collinsville, Ill., earned senior counselor recognition from the St. Clair County Bar
Association.
Westwood One’s Lon Helton won his ninth Country Music Association award, being named the 2018 National Broadcast Personality of the Year for his work on Country Countdown USA. Helton received the news via a phone call from country music star Jason Aldean. “Jason Aldean told me he was about to make my day even better, and boy, did he!” said Helton. “It’s simply overwhelming to be the CMA’s National Broadcast Personality of the Year for the ninth time.”
1973
Nancy Hayward Macari has moved to Palatine, Ill. She retired from teaching in 2011.
Thomas Satterly of Nixa, Mo., has semi-retired from his orthopedic surgery practice and now serves as an orthopedic surgery consultant for the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Prisons.
